A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/06/25 / 2025-06-13 18:51:20 / June 13, 2025 @ 6:51 pm. Unique identifier: us7000q942. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000q942. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 94.492 km (59 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:51:20 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.3741 East, latitude -14.6503 South, depth = 94.492 km.
Nearby country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sola (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
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